we are providing all the e-mails. the fact that three years ago some of them, not all of them, but some of them were not available, i never said i would provide you e-mails we didn t have. and in fact, we are going to provide you 24,000 e-mails from the my time has expired and i ve lost my patience with you. meanwhile, the white house now says it will comply with a subpoena to have one of its lawyers testify at a hearing today. jennifer o connor was a lawyer for the irs last year. there is a scathing new report about care problems at veterans affairs facilities across the country. the office of special counsel tells president obama that an internal watchdog regularly downplayed problems at v.a. facilities or ignored warnings from whistleblowers about potential issues. despite investigations at more than three dozen v.a. facilities, a top official defended the system at a house hearing. they value the v.a. system
i don t think i ve seen a display of this kind of disrespect in all the time i ve been here in congress. reporter: so you can see just how tense it was late into the night. and they resume this morning. this morning the panel hears from jennifer o connor, white house counsel, but she used to be at the irs. she was there while a lot of this was happening, and she s been subpoenaed to testify today. frances? we ll see those fireworks continue today. thank you. it is runoff day in mississippi s republican senate primary. the race between tea party-backed chris mcdaniel and 42-year incumbent thad cochran has been one of the most bizarre and intensely fought races in the country. you may remember that four mcdaniel supporters were arrested for photographing the ailing wife of senator cochran. now a staffer on the cochran campaign has been arrested this time for allegedly destroying or stealing mcdaniel campaign signs. the latest poll conducted by a democratic firm has mcdaniel up
with the national arcive and white house counsel office. so some grilling last night. how is today going, athena. hi, brooke. well, today we saw a continued focus on who knew what at the white house and what did they do with that information? members of congress remember members of congress in this committee were hoping to get those answers from jennifer o connor who was a lawyer in the council office. who got that information, the chief of staff, the president? did anyone at the white house pass this information onto the department of justice or the fbi? now jennifer o connor said i can t answer these questions because i ve only been in this job a month. i should note that o connor did spend six months last year working as a lawyer with the irs during the time when they were trying to comply with all the documentation questions so she was also able to discuss this with that panel.
that s just me. you guys look like you re ready for this. i hope you re ready for the show. hey, baby. we re ready. let s rock, let s roll. hearings on the irs scandal, round two. last night it was irs commissioner john koskinen, on the hot seat today, white house lawyer jennifer o connor, one of the lead irs attorneys who oversaw the response to congressional demand for lois lerner s records. republicans pressuring her if she knew the e-mails were lost possibly forever after her computer crashed in 2011. the hard drives since destroyed, a stunning disclosure. congress was not told about that until last week. seems like everyone knows this stuff until, except the congress, and we don t get it until months later. so, again, i d like to be as helpful as i can well, it would have been helpful if you d have had those answers to those questions. do you know if the white house counsel s office that once, in
i like to know what you meant, because obviously they doesn t they were missing in the months you were there after subpoena asked for all of them. jon: chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live on capitol hill. distill this all down for us. mike. what s happening? reporter: jon, good morning. some republican lawmakers think an irs lawyer who works at white house may have useful information about the missing e-mails. let s take you live to the hearing. the white house lawyer is testifying alongside an official from the national archives and records administration about thousands of missing external emails from 2009 to 2011. jennifer o connor worked at the irs for six months last year and lawmakers are asking about why it took so long for the agency to figure out emails were missing. she was subpoenaed to testify and there was a question if she is a non-cooperative witness. miss owe connor, you declined to come here voluntarily. we subpoenaed you. you re clearly not ple